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When the old pistol was shot towards police it backfired and blew the thumb off one of the men.

Moments later they were cut down in a
hail of bullets believed to be fired by a woman marksman. Last night
both men were being treated in hospital for their wounds.

Savagery: One attacker with cleaver (circled) in
hand walks towards his accomplice (also circled) as their victim lies
in the road

Dramatic: The incredible moment a female passer-by confronted a second knife-wielding murderer in London

Before police arrived one of the
killers was filmed giving his warped justification for the sickening
attack: ‘We swear by Almighty Allah we will never stop fighting you. The
only reasons we have done this is because Muslims are dying every day.

'You people will never be safe. An eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth'

One of the killers

‘This British soldier is an eye for an
eye a tooth for tooth. We apologise that women had to see this today
but in our lands our women have to see the same.’

In footage screened by ITV News, he added: ‘You people will never be safe. Remove your government. They don’t care about you.

‘You think David Cameron is going to
get caught in the street when we start busting our guns? You think your
politicians are going to die? No, it’s going to be the average guy like
you – and your children.

‘So get rid of them – tell them to bring our troops back so we can ... so you can all live in peace.’

SHOCKED EYEWITNESS SAYS MAN WAS 'HACKED, CHOPPED AND CUT'

An
eyewitness who watched a man brutally killed with a machete-style knife
and dumped in a street last night dramatically revealed how he watched
the two attackers behave like 'crazed animals'.

The
man, known only as James, said he and his partner saw two black men
attack a young man aged around 20 in a Help for Heroes T-shirt like he
was ‘a piece of meat’.

Fighting
back tears, he told LBC Radio: ‘They were hacking at this poor guy,
literally. They were chopping him, cutting him. These two guys were
crazed. They were just animals.

'They dragged him from the pavement, dumped his body in the middle of the road and left (it) there.’

He
said that after the ‘horrendous’ attack, the two men, in their 20s,
stood around, waving knives and a gun, even asking people nearby to take
pictures of them ‘as if they wanted to be on TV’.

‘They
were oblivious to anything, they were more worried about having their
photo taken, running up and down the road,’ he said.

‘They
had no intention of running off or leaving or anything. In my opinion,
they were waiting for the police to arrive to be shot by the police.
That's the only thing I can think. It's horrendous what they were doing
to that guy.’

Yesterday’s slaughter took place 200
yards from The Royal Artillery Barracks in Woolwich and close to a
primary school at 2.20pm.

Witnesses told how the men drove a dark blue Vauxhall Tigra on to the pavement and knocked down the soldier.

He was wearing a T-shirt with the army
charity Help for Heroes logo on it and was carrying a military issue
rucksack. The men then leapt out of their car and ‘hacked and chopped’
at their victim before dragging his bloodied body into the middle of the
road.

Last night both men were placed under arrest after being treated for gunshot wounds under armed guard in separate hospitals.

On a day of fast-moving developments,
David Cameron cut short his trip to Paris and described the
assassination as ‘absolutely sickening’, insisting Britain will ‘never
buckle’ in the face of terrorist attacks.

Security was tightened at dozens of
other Army barracks across the country amid fears of copycat attacks and
Home Secretary Theresa May called a meeting of Cobra, Whitehall’s
emergency committee, after being briefed by MI5 and counter-terrorism
police.

Experts believe the pair were using Muslim names and could be of Somali or Nigerian heritage.

It is thought the two fundamentalists
had spent weeks watching the barracks, which the Queen is due to visit
next week, prior to the attack.

The ambush and stabbing of a soldier close to an army barracks is an unprecedented Islamic attack on mainland Britain.

It immediately prompted widespread
revulsion. David Cameron said Britain ‘will not be cowed, will never
buckle’ in the face of terrorism last night as he urged people to go
about their lives as normal in defiance of the ‘absolutely sickening’
killing in London.

I am from London born and grew up there. We are use to terror my childhood was filled with the Irish IRA bombing us. Personally i have been in the area of 2 bombs one of terror one left over from WW2 which was found and destroyed.may be it is because we have lived with so much horror we banned guns. i know this is a hard thing for most to understand, even our police are not armed just specialofficers, a class room of 17 second grade age children in a town called Dunblane was as much as any one could stomach. so if you have a gun you are a criminal, and you will enjoy your 5 years in jail. When you meet violence with violence you are confirming this idiots belief an eye for an-eye, tonight prays go to his family. Also where the hack are these men from and the land they are from? they sound like south east London to me and i would say to all others who feel that we should over throw our government..NO..and feel free to leave any time back to this wonderful place your from.... at least the lady with her shopping cart just kept calm and carried on.

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